Re: installing world from src on a pkgbase system

vermaden wrote in <nuoumevhhaldotdbxsyk@bxng>:
> It was reported to me by my buddy

okay, your buddy?  what you said was:

> I was told the same thing - but got hit by that 'recommendation'.
> 
> I mean - after these:
> 
> # make buildworld buildkernel
>
> When I type:
>
> # make update-packages
> It sometimes fails with some strange error.

is this you or your buddy?

> and it seems he forgot the 'buildworld' part:

did "your buddy" run "make update-packages" without running buildworld?
this is not intended to work and indeed, will not work.  perhaps we
could produce a better error message there.

> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF='GENERIC FIREWALL' update-packages
> 
> --> Processing manifest: /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/worldstage/set-optional-jail-dbg.ucl
> --> Processing manifest: /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/worldstage/set-optional-jail.ucl
> --> Processing manifest: /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/worldstage/set-optional.ucl
> --> Processing manifest: /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/worldstage/set-tests.ucl
> ==> Checking for new packages (comparing 15.0p4 to 15.0p4)
> ==> Keeping old FreeBSD-acct-15.0p4.pkg
> cp: /usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:15:amd64/15.0p4/FreeBSD-acct-15.0p4.pkg: No such file or directory

that said, i don't really understand this error.  can you please share
the full buildworld, buildkernel and update-packages log?